"I longed to arrest all the beauty that came before me and at length the longing has been satisfied." - Julia Margaret Cameron
I can't remember how I first discovered Julia Margaret Cameron, but whenever I look again at her photography I'm astounded by it's beauty and intensity. For the era that she lived her portraiture especially is groundbreaking in its immediacy. When you consider that these images were not taken with a click of the button, but with the subjects sitting for the lengthy periods of time necessary in early photography, the intimacy of her work is astounding.
Self Portrait, 1862
Whisper of the Muse, 1865
The Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, 1874
Sir Galahad and the Nun, 1874
Charles H. Cameron as King Lear, 1872
Elaine, 1875
The May Queen, 1874
Sadness, 1864
The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, 1866
Julia Jackson, 1867 (mother of Virginia Woolf)
The Gipsy, 1865
Miss Magdalene Brookfield, 1865
Beatrice, 1866
Maud, 1875
Julia and Charles Norman, 1864
The Kiss of Peace, 1869
Gareth and Lynette, 1874
H.W. Longfellow, 1868
Charles Darwin, 1868
Robert Browning, 1865
A. Tennyson, 1865
Prayer, 1866
Paul and Virginia, 1864
Daisy Bradley, 1864
Cupid Reposing, 1872
